This week’s Parliamentary Rural Policy Cross-Party Group heard from Norway, Canada and Northern Ireland on their broad approach to rural policy. At a time when Scotland likely faces big decisions about how its own rural policy should look after Brexit, the timing could not have been better [read more]

The insights provided were fascinating, particularly with regard to how centralised or regional choices should be and the “problems” that rural policy prescriptions were aiming to “fix”. Minutes will be available in due course - www.parliament.scot/msps/rural-policy.aspx